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Marx and Engels on art and aesthetics
- Karl Marks i Fridrikh Engels ob iskusstve [Карл Маркс и Фридрих Энгельс об искусстве], eds. Mikhail Lifshitz (Михаил Лифшиц) and Franc Shiller (Франц Шиллер), Moscow, 1933; expanded ed., 1938; further expanded ed., 2 vols., 1957; 1967; 1976; 1983. (Russian)
- Sur la littérature et l'art, ed., trans. & intro. Jean Fréville, Paris: Sociales Internationales, 1936, 205 pp; new ed., intro. Maurice Thorez, Paris: Sociales, 1954, 411 pp. (French)
- Sobre la literatura y el arte, ed. Jean Fréville, Buenos Aires: Problemas, 1940, 244 pp; new ed., exp., La Habana: Política, 1965, 471 pp. (Spanish)
- Sobre la literatura y el arte, trans. Pedro Peralta, La Plata: Calomino, 1946, 235 pp. (Spanish)
- Literature and Art: Selections from Their Writings, New York: International Publishers, 1947, 154 pp. (English)
- Marx / Engels. Über Kunst und Literatur. Eine Sammlung aus ihren Schriften, ed. Mikhail Lifshitz, forew. Fritz Erpenbeck, Berlin: Henschel, 1948, xv+610 pp (trans. of the 1938 ed.); 6th ed., 1953; new ed., 2 vols., ed. M. Kliem, Berlin, 1967-1968. (German)
- Ma ke si, en ge si lun wen xue yu yi shu [马克思, 恩格斯论文学与艺术], ed. Jean Fréville, trans. Daoqian Wang, Shanghai: Ping ming chu ban she, 1951, 311 pp; new ed., exp., 2 vols., Beijing: Ren min wen xue chu ban she, 1982, 516 & 412 pp. (Chinese)
- O umetnosti i književnosti: izbor iz njihovih spisa, ed. Mikhail Lifshitz, trans. Moša Pijade, a.o., Belgrade: Kultura, 1960. (Serbo-Croatian)
- K. Markʻsě ev F. Ēngelsě arvesti masin [Կ. Մարքսը եվ Ֆ. Էնգելսը արվեստի մասին], eds. Mikhail Lifshitz and Franc Shiller, Erevan: Hayastani Petakan Hratarakchʻutʻyun, 1963, 357 pp. (Armenian)
- On Literature and Art, ed. B. Krylov, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976, 520 pp. (English)
- Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings, eds. Stefan Morawski and Lee Baxandall, intro. Stefan Morawski, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1973, 175 pp; new ed., corr. & exp., New York: International General, 1974, 179 pp; repr., Telos Press, 1983; rev.ed., ed. Macdonald Daly, Nottingham: CCCP, 2006, Excerpt. (English)
- On Marx's aesthetics
- Mikhail Lifshitz (Михаил Лифшиц), K voprosu o vzglyadakh Marksa na iskusstvo [К вопросу о взглядах Маркса на искусство], Moscow/Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1933, 131 pp; 2nd ed., 1960; 3rd ed. as Karl Marks. Iskusstvo i obshestvennyy ideal [Карл Маркс. Искусство и общественный идеал], Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1972, 471 pp; 1979, 471 pp. (Russian)
- The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx, trans. Ralph B. Winn, ed. Angel Flores, New York: Critics Group, 1938; London: Pluto, 1973. Via, Review. (English)
- Karl Marx und die Ästhetik, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1960, 176 pp; 2nd ed., 1967, 179 pp. (German)
- Marx és az esztétika, Gondolat, 1966. (Hungarian)
- Marx'ın sanat felsefesi, trans. Murat Belge, Istanbul: Ararat Yayınevi, 1968, 151 pp; repr., Ankara: Kuzey, 1984, 121 pp. (Turkish)
- Karl Marx y la estética, trans. Malena Barro, La Habana: Arte y Literatura, 1976, 254 pp. (Spanish)
- La filosofía del arte de Karl Marx, México: Era, 1981, 182 pp. (Spanish)
- Makesi lun yi shu he she hui li xiang [马克思论艺术和社会理想], trans. Yuanmai Wu, Beijing: Ren min wen xue chu ban she, 1983, 516 pp. (Chinese)
- Falsafah-'i hunar az didgāh Mārks: bā jastārhā-yi darbāri-yi taʼsīr aydiyūlūgī bar hunar w. i. Linīn, Lūyī Āltūsar, Atīn Bālībār, Pīyar māsharī, trans. Majīd Madadī, Tehran: Āgāh, 1381 [2003], 267 pp. (Persian)
- Stefan Morawski, "The Aesthetic Views of Marx and Engels", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28:3 (Spring 1970), pp 301-314. (English)
- Margaret A. Rose, Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 216 pp; 1988. Commentary, Review. (English)
- Ali Alizadeh, Marx and Art, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. (English)
German debates in the 1930s-50s
- Walter Benjamin, Versuche über Brecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. (German)
- Understanding Brecht, London/New York: Verso, 1998. (English)
- Bertolt Brecht, Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur, 3 vols., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967-68. (German)
- Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács, Aesthetics and Politics, trans. ed. Ronald Taylor, New Left Books, 1977; Verso, 1980, 221 pp. (English)
- Responses
- Peter Bürger, Theorie der Avantgarde, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 147 pp. (German)
- Theory of the Avant-Garde, trans. Michael Shaw, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, 134 pp. (English)
- Teoría de la vanguardia, trans. Jorge García, 1987; 3rd ed., 2000. (Spanish)
- Teoria da vanguarda, trans. Ernesto Sampaio, 1993. (Portuguese)
- "Teorie avantgardy", in Bürger, Teorie avantgardy. Stárnutí moderny. Stati o výtvarném umění, Prague: VVP AVU, 2015. [1] (Czech)
- Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism, University of California Press, 1976. (English)
- Herbert Marcuse, Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik: Ein Essay, Munich: Hanser, 1977, 77 pp. (German)
- The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, trans. Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover, Boston: Beacon Press, 1978, 88 pp. (English)
- La dimension esthétique, trans. Didier Coste, Paris: Seuil, 1979, 82 pp. (French)
- La dimensione estetica e altri scritti: un'educazione politica tra rivolta e trascendenza, Milan: Guerini, 2002. (Italian)
- La dimensión estética: Crítica de la ortodoxia marxista, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2007. (Spanish)
Anthologies
- Maynard Solomon (ed.), Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979. (English)
- Armand Mattelart, Seth Siegelaub (eds.), Communication and Class Struggle, 1: Capitalism, Imperialism, New York: International General, and Bagnolet: International Mass Media Research Center (IMMRC), 1979, 445 pp. (English)
- Armand Mattelart, Seth Siegelaub (eds.), Communication and Class Struggle, 2: Liberation, Socialism, New York: International General, and Bagnolet: International Mass Media Research Center (IMMRC), 1983, 438 pp. (English)
Other writings
- Mikhail Lifshitz, Krizis bezobraziya. Ot kubizma do pop-art [Кризис безобразия. От кубизма до поп-арт], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1968, 199+[16] pp. (Russian)
- Krise des Häßlichen: vom Kubismus zur Pop-Art, trans. Helmut Barth, Dresden: Verl. der Kunst, 1971, 171+[32] pp; 2nd ed., rev., 1972, 160+[32] pp. (German)
- Krize modernismu, ed. Vladimír Dostál, trans.Věra Jungmannová a Vladimír Dostál, afterw. Dušan Konečný, Prague: Odeon, 1975, 284+[56] pp. Selection of texts taken from Modernizm (1973), Krizis bezobraziya (1968), and Iskusstvo i sovremennyy mir (1973). (Czech)
- The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art, intro. & trans. David Riff, Leiden: Brill, 2019, ix+153+[37] pp. [2] (English)
- César Vallejo, El arte y la revolución [1932], Lima: Mosca Azul, 1973. (Spanish)
- Francis D. Klingender, Marxism and Modern Art: An approach to Social Realism, London: International Publishers, 1943; rev.ed. Benjamin Farrington, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975. (English)
- Francis D. Klingender, Art and the Industrial Revolution, London: N. Carrington, 1947; rev.ed. Arthur Elton, Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1968; St Albans: Paladin, 1975, xv+272 pp. Reviews: Andrews (JRSA). (English)
- Francis D. Klingender, Goya in the Democratic Tradition, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1948. (English)
- Gen Doy, Materializing Art History, Oxford: Berg, 1998, 271 pp. (English)
- Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes, Princeton University Press, 2005, 336 pp. (English)
- Andrew Hemingway (ed.), Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left Marxism and Culture, Pluto Press, 2006. (English)
- Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic J. Schwartz (eds.), Renew Marxist Art History London: Art/Books, 2013. (English)
- Larne Abse Gogarty, Andrew Hemingway (eds.), Kunst und Politik 21: "Keywords for Marxist Art History Today", Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, 214 pp. (English)
Bibliographies
- Andrew Hemingway, "Marxism and Art", Oxford Bibliographies, 2014. (English)
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- Publications on marxist aesthetics on Monoskop Log
- Collection of writings of literary criticism in the Marxists Internet Archive
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